Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing confused? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Point No.3: An entire absence of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is using, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...